Press Releases

The app GP at Hand is currently destabilising general practice and has been doing so for some time. Yet it now appears that this sorry saga set to worsen after Hammersmith and Fulham CCG (the CCG where the app is registered) has indicated that it is prepared to lift the cap currently preventing GP at Hand from recruiting more than …

The National Health Action Party has recently called out Boris Johnson on his lies that the £1.8bn in “new” funding that he announced for the NHS is really “new” after it was revealed that over half of the £1.8bn spending boost announced this week by Boris Johnson has come about through u-turning on a demand made last month, by NHS …

By Kane Shaw, Press Officer Today the Health Service Journal (HSJ) is reporting that only 3% of the £2.5bn in capital spending allocated by the government since 2017 has been released to the health service. Capital spending is defined as spending on estate infrastructure. This includes computer information technology, medical equipment, vehicles such as ambulances, and building maintenance and repairs, as …

Today Boris Johnson will be handed the keys to Number 10 Downing Street and Britain will be led by a Prime Minister who is fundamentally unfit for office. Boris Johnson has weaponised racism and homophobia to advance his political career, he has embarrassed not only this country on the world stage but also our friends and allies. His lies have …

By Kane Shaw, Press Officer Last week the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a new partnership between the NHS and Amazon where Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa will be able to scan the NHS website to answer users queries with NHS validated responses. The National Health Action Party responded to the announcement by warning that the Health …

By Kane Shaw, Press Officer The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has today announced that Amazon's AI powered voice assistant Alexa will be able to scan the NHS website in order to provide NHS verified answers to users health related queries. The voice assisted technology's algorithms will scan the NHS website in order to provide answers …

The latest edition of The Lowdown is reporting a victory for NHS campaigners after Halton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was forced into a U-turn over its plans to award a £25m contract to private company, One Primary Care. The contract was to run two urgent treatment centres, one being based in Widnes and the other in Runcorn and both of which …

By Dr Helen Salisbury, Spokesperson for the National Health Action Party Since its foundation, the NHS has been committed to providing treatment according to clinical need. The distinction between want and need is important—there may be treatments that patients want but don’t need, such as cosmetic surgery. In these cases, they have to go to the private sector and pay …

For activists and concerned citizens who want to see the best for our NHS it can often feel daunting when one first attempts to come to grips with how the privatisation of the health service really takes place on the ground. The NHS is hardly a small institution, and it always seems like there is a new NHS related story …

Today it has been revealed by the Mirror that Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust is now charging patients for NHS treatments which were previously free. The National Health Action Party reported last year that NHS England was reclassifying a swathe of procedures as being Procedures of Low Clinical Priority. In reality, the move - which at the time was condemned by …

Witnessing the transformation of the #NHS to deal with #COVID19 has been remarkable & uplifting. Great credit must go to both clinical & non-clinical managers. If our political leaders had an ounce of this talent, ability & foresight, many more lives would have been saved

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Serco falsified data and failed to provide decent service. There’s more, much more - just look them up. They are unfit to provide any public services. https://t.co/NKVPUdVUlL